# Senior Software Release Manager – Networking Verification Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Yokneam
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join a world-class team at the forefront of high-performance networking technology. As part of the Networking group, this role drives the execution of host software products powering modern datacenters, cloud environments, and software-defined networks.

This is a high-visibility opportunity to manage complex product dependencies and shape the future of virtualization and networking infrastructure.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the end-to-end delivery of high-quality software releases for host and switch products, from initial kickoff to final signoff.

- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Architecture, and Marketing to synchronize schedules and ensure rigorous quality standards.

- Analyze release data, R&D feature status, and bug metrics using advanced planning and tracking tools to build performance indicators.

- Facilitate critical release milestones, including Feature Freeze, Code Freeze, and Beta phases, while managing retrospective sessions to drive continuous improvement.

- Manage simultaneous release tracks across various lifecycles, including General Availability (GA), Monthly Updates, and Long-Term Support (LTS).

- Direct bug triage processes to ensure release convergence and prioritize customer-facing fixes.

- Monitor cross-team dependencies and escalate risks to maintain alignment between development, verification, and QA clusters.

- Oversee release branches, builds, and versioning to ensure seamless integration at both the feature and release levels.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

- 5+ years of overall experience, with a proven track record in software release management or technical project leadership.

- Expertise in solving complex problems on-the-fly and managing multi-disciplinary projects within ambiguous environments.

- Strong organizational leadership skills with the ability to work independently and drive results across global teams.

- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including experience with public speaking and technical reporting in English.

**Nice to Have:**

- Proficiency with enterprise tools such as MS PowerBI, Confluence, and ticketing systems like Jira or Redmine.

- Deep technical familiarity with Networking technologies and agile software development methodologies.

- Hands-on experience with GIT and version control best practices.

- Prior success in product management combined with software release execution.

## Skills

### Required
- software release management
- technical project leadership
- complex problem-solving
- multi-disciplinary project management
- organizational leadership
- exceptional communication
- public speaking
- technical reporting

### Nice to have
- MS PowerBI
- Confluence
- Jira
- Redmine
- Networking technologies
- agile software development methodologies
- GIT
- version control best practices
- product management

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